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Counting the Costs of Uncontrolled Open Source

Black Duck Software Press Releases - Thu, 06/20/2013 - 16:00

Date: Thursday, June 20th
Time: 11:00am EDT – What time is this for me?

According to Gartner, 50% of Global 2000 organizations will experience technology, cost or security challenges through a lack of open software management and governance by 2014. In order to proactively address these challenges, it’s imperative to gain visibility to specific open source component use within your many code bases, cross-checking for security vulnerabilities, version proliferation, and code quality issues that drive up costs and cause delays in delivery. Taking a proactive approach to managing open source use within your organization can enable you to accelerate your application development while controlling unexpected costs commonly associated with the use of open source.

This webinar, the third in our Enterprise IT series, will be hosted by Black Duck and BearingPoint, an established business and IT consultancy with an entrepreneurial, adaptive flair and the ability to proactively drive business change.

You will learn how to:

  • Gain visibility to your open source usage by inserting an open source management process into your development environment
  • Measure the cost savings of controlling open source in your organization
  • Monitor for and identify security vulnerabilities in the open source you use
  • Monitor and track  licenses and associated obligations governing your open source

Can't attend? All registrants will receive a follow-up email with a copy of the slides and the full recording within 2-3 business days of the broadcast.

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Categories: Vendor

Netflix: Building Up and Scaling Out on Open Source

Black Duck Software Press Releases - Tue, 06/18/2013 - 19:00

Don’t miss insights around how Netflix uses open source to meet the dynamic needs of its rapidly growing subscriber base.

Date: Tuesday, June 18th
Time: 2:00pm EDT - What time is this for me?

To consumers, Netflix is the world’s leading internet subscription service, offering unlimited movies and instant streaming. But to developers and technology leaders, Netflix is at the forefront of open source and the associated advances in cloud, big data and mobile innovations.

With over 30 million global subscribers to support, Netflix relies on the open source tools it contributes to and develops, for the scalability and availability that its native cloud architecture and web servers require.

Join us for this webinar with Netflix Cloud Architect, Adrian Cockcroft, sharing:

  • An introduction to Netflix OSS
  • Why Netflix is taking an open source approach
  • How all the parts fit together
  • What is coming next for Netflix OSS

Can't attend? All registrants will receive a follow-up email with a copy of the slides and the full recording within 2-3 business days of the broadcast.

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Categories: Vendor

Enhancing Your Open Source Management and Compliance Processes for Embedded Software

Black Duck Software Press Releases - Tue, 06/11/2013 - 16:30

Date: Tuesday, June 11th
Time: 11:30am EDT – What time is this for me?

Increasingly, open source components are an important element in developing embedded systems. Linux-based systems, including specialized distributions like GENIVI and Yocto, are the foundation for systems being built today. The innovation and productivity benefits of using open software components developed and maintained by a community are huge. But as with any third party code, systems vendors need to carefully manage the licensing of the software inside the products they ship. 

Wind River has a wealth of experience in developing, delivering, and managing OSS internally in support of its market leading open operating environments; Black Duck is the market leader in providing products and services to companies developing embedded systems, enabling them to manage their open source software and ensure compliance throughout the development lifecycle.

This webinar will provide concrete use cases about how the best companies manage their use of open source and how SPDX licensing data can be leveraged to improve compliance and increase efficiency in a supply chain.

Can't attend? All registrants will receive a follow-up email with a copy of the slides and the full recording within 2-3 business days of the broadcast.

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Categories: Vendor

2013-05-19 - New Uize.Class.doMy Static Method

UIZE JavaScript Framework - 1 min 2 sec ago
The new Uize.Class.doMy static method, implemented in the Uize.Class base class and inherited by all subclasses, provides a convenient and semantically more elegant way to call an instance method of a class on a specified instance.
Categories: Open Source, RIA

2013-03-31 - New Uize.copyList Method

UIZE JavaScript Framework - 1 min 2 sec ago
The new Uize.copyList method, implemented in the Uize base module, lets you conveniently copy the elements of a list object into a fresh array.
Categories: Open Source, RIA

2013-03-30 - New Uize.push Method

UIZE JavaScript Framework - 1 min 2 sec ago
The new Uize.push static method, implemented in the Uize base module, lets you conveniently push / append the elements from a source list onto the end of a target list.
Categories: Open Source, RIA

2013-03-28 - Improved required Directive in JST Templates

UIZE JavaScript Framework - 1 min 2 sec ago
The @required directive, that is part of the JST template system implemented in the Uize.Template module, has been improved to allow the required modules to be specified in an arbitrarily long list of string arguments.
Categories: Open Source, RIA

2013-03-25 - New Uize.Url.toRelative Method

UIZE JavaScript Framework - 1 min 2 sec ago
The new Uize.Url.toRelative static method, implemented in the Uize.Url module, lets you create a relative URL from a base URL to a destination URL.
Categories: Open Source, RIA

2013-03-22 - New Uize.merge Method

UIZE JavaScript Framework - 1 min 2 sec ago
The new Uize.merge method, implemented in the Uize base module, lets you merge the contents of multiple source objects together into a fresh object.
Categories: Open Source, RIA

2013-03-21 - New Uize.copy Method

UIZE JavaScript Framework - 1 min 2 sec ago
The new Uize.copy method, implemented in the Uize base module, lets you copy the properties from one or more source objects into a freshly created object.
Categories: Open Source, RIA

2012-09-23 - UizeDotCom Namespace Renamed to UizeSite

UIZE JavaScript Framework - 1 min 2 sec ago
The UizeDotCom namespace has been renamed to simply UizeSite in order to make it TLD (Top Level Domain) agnostic.
Categories: Open Source, RIA

2012-09-15 - Improved Support for Conditions

UIZE JavaScript Framework - 1 min 2 sec ago
Support for conditions in UIZE has been improved with the addition of support for compound conditions in the once instance method of the Uize.Class module.
Categories: Open Source, RIA

2012-09-03 - Improved Module Mechanism

UIZE JavaScript Framework - 1 min 2 sec ago
The module mechanism of the UIZE JavaScript Framework has been improved with the addition of support for parallel ascynchronous loading of required modules and the new Uize.require static method.
Categories: Open Source, RIA

2012-08-18 - Set-get Properties Become State Properties

UIZE JavaScript Framework - 1 min 2 sec ago
Set-get properties, a core system of the UIZE JavaScript Framework, has been renamed to "state properties".
Categories: Open Source, RIA

2012-08-13 - New met and unmet Instance Methods for Classes

UIZE JavaScript Framework - 1 min 2 sec ago
The new met and unmet instance methods provide a semantically elegant way to use state properties to represent conditions and to set conditions as having been met or being unmet.
Categories: Open Source, RIA

2012-08-12 - Improved once Method for Classes

UIZE JavaScript Framework - 1 min 2 sec ago
The once instance method, implemented in the Uize.Class base class module, has been improved with support for optional condition inversion.
Categories: Open Source, RIA

2012-08-05 - New is Instance Method for Classes

UIZE JavaScript Framework - 1 min 2 sec ago
The new is instance method, implemented in the Uize.Class base class module, provides a semantically elegant way to test if the value of an instance's state property is truthy.
Categories: Open Source, RIA

2012-08-04 - Improved Setting of State Properties

UIZE JavaScript Framework - 1 min 2 sec ago
Setting of state properties has been improved with convenient new variations for the set instance method and the Uize.Class.set static method, implemented in the Uize.Class base class module.
Categories: Open Source, RIA

2012-07-22 - New once Instances Method for Classes

UIZE JavaScript Framework - 1 min 2 sec ago
The Uize.Class module, that implements the class mechanism for the UIZE JavaScript Framework, has been improved with the addition of a once instance method for state properties.
Categories: Open Source, RIA

2012-07-08 - Build Script Modules Migrated

UIZE JavaScript Framework - 1 min 2 sec ago
Various build scripts used for building the UIZE project and the UIZE Web site have been migrated.
Categories: Open Source, RIA